western tanager
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The western tanager is a brightly colored North American songbird known for its vivid yellow body, contrasting black wings, and red-orange head in males.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| western tanager canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8913950 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: western tanager Context triple: [Piranga ludoviciana, commonName, western tanager]
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A.
blue-gray tanager
The blue-gray tanager is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its pale blue-gray plumage and frequent presence in open woodlands, gardens, and urban areas from Mexico through much of South America.
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B.
swallow tanager
The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its vivid blue and green plumage and swallow-like silhouette in flight.
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C.
scarlet tanager
The scarlet tanager is a striking North American songbird known for the male’s vivid red plumage contrasted with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
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D.
summer tanager
The summer tanager (Piranga rubra) is a medium-sized North American songbird known for the adult male’s bright red plumage and its habit of catching bees and wasps in open woodlands.
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E.
Western bluebird
The Western bluebird is a small North American thrush known for the male’s bright blue plumage with a rusty-orange chest and its preference for open woodlands and nest boxes.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: western tanager Target entity description: The western tanager is a brightly colored North American songbird known for its vivid yellow body, contrasting black wings, and red-orange head in males.
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A.
blue-gray tanager
The blue-gray tanager is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its pale blue-gray plumage and frequent presence in open woodlands, gardens, and urban areas from Mexico through much of South America.
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B.
swallow tanager
The swallow tanager (Tersina viridis) is a small, brightly colored Neotropical songbird known for its vivid blue and green plumage and swallow-like silhouette in flight.
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C.
scarlet tanager
The scarlet tanager is a striking North American songbird known for the male’s vivid red plumage contrasted with black wings and tail during the breeding season.
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D.
summer tanager
The summer tanager (Piranga rubra) is a medium-sized North American songbird known for the adult male’s bright red plumage and its habit of catching bees and wasps in open woodlands.
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E.
Western bluebird
The Western bluebird is a small North American thrush known for the male’s bright blue plumage with a rusty-orange chest and its preference for open woodlands and nest boxes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bird species
ⓘ
tanagers ⓘ |
| attracts | birdwatchers ⓘ |
| averageMass | about 24 to 30 g ⓘ |
| binomialName | Piranga ludoviciana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodyLength | about 16 to 19 cm ⓘ |
| breedingRange |
Alaska
NERFINISHED
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western Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ western United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| breedsIn | western North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callType | sharp pit-er-ick call ⓘ |
| class | Aves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clutchSize | 3 to 5 eggs ⓘ |
| commonName |
Louisiana tanager
NERFINISHED
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western tanager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedBy | Alexander Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedInYear | 1811 ⓘ |
| diet |
berries
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fruits ⓘ insects ⓘ spiders ⓘ |
| eggColor | pale blue or greenish with dark spots ⓘ |
| family | Cardinalidae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| femalePlumage |
duller yellow body
ⓘ
lack of bright red head ⓘ olive or grayish wings ⓘ |
| foragingBehavior |
gleaning insects from foliage
ⓘ
hawking insects in flight ⓘ |
| foragingStratum | canopy ⓘ |
| genus | Piranga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| habitat |
coniferous forest
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forest edge ⓘ mixed coniferous-deciduous forest ⓘ open woodland ⓘ |
| incubationBy | female ⓘ |
| incubationPeriod | about 12 to 13 days ⓘ |
| IUCNStatus | Least Concern ⓘ |
| IUCNStatusSystem | IUCN 3.1 ⓘ |
| kingdom | Animalia ⓘ |
| malePlumage |
black tail
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black wings ⓘ bright yellow body ⓘ red-orange head ⓘ |
| migratoryBehavior | long-distance migrant ⓘ |
| nativeTo | North America ⓘ |
| nestLocation | tree branch ⓘ |
| nestType | cup nest ⓘ |
| notableFeature | bright yellow body with black wings and red-orange head in males ⓘ |
| order | Passeriformes ⓘ |
| parentalCare | both parents feed nestlings ⓘ |
| phylum | Chordata ⓘ |
| sexualDimorphism | present ⓘ |
| songType | series of short burry phrases ⓘ |
| taxonRank | species ⓘ |
| threats |
forest fragmentation
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habitat loss ⓘ |
| wingspan | about 27 to 30 cm ⓘ |
| wintersIn |
Central America
NERFINISHED
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Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: western tanager Description of subject: The western tanager is a brightly colored North American songbird known for its vivid yellow body, contrasting black wings, and red-orange head in males.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.